The Counter Strike franchise has been around for over two decades, being one of the pioneering platforms in rewarding players for their tournament results, playing an important role in shaping what we know today as eSports.As the game evolved, especially with its transition to Counter Strike: Global Operation (CS:GO) in 2012, so did the monetization factors and dedication to the game by teams, players, teams, coverage, and many others gaming platforms.With this expansion, it is necessary to know better the main and best CSGO teams in the world and understand what their best results and members are, especially if you intend to place your bets on your favorite team, or on the one with the highest odds, at CSGO Captain.So today we will be introducing you a little more about some of the most famous CS:GO teamsNatus VincereNatus Vincere (Na'vi) is a multi-gaming organization from Ukraine, being one of the top professional eSports teams, and also the first team in history to win three major tournaments in one year: the Intel Extreme Masters, Electronic Sports World Cup and the World Cyber Games.The team was founded on December 18, 2009, after the collapse of the Ukrainian team KerchNET, the former players were supported by esports tournament organizer Murat "Arbalet" Tulemaganbetov.The team is the current CS:GO world champion, and also the only organization to participate in every CS:GO Major, a total of thirteen times, and its team today consists of the following players:Denis “electronic” SharipovKirill “Boombl4” MikhailovAleksandr “s1mple” KostylievIlya “Perfecto” ZautskiyValeriy “B1T” VakhoskiyIts current coach is Andey “B1ad3” Gorodenskiy and their manager is Eugene “Ugin” Yerofeyev.During the last decade, Natus Vincere has had an exemplary campaign, winning several titles throughout its career. Some of its main titles can be seen below:Intel Extreme Masters 4, ESWC, World Cyber Games, DreamHack Winter 2010Intel Extreme Masters 5, Intel Challenge Super Cup 7, Adepto BH Open 2011IEM 6 Global Challenge KievStarLadder StarSeries 9, Game Show League Season 1Intel Extreme Masters 10 - San Jose, CS:GO Champions League Season 1, Electronic Sports World Cup (EWSC), StarLadder StarSeries 13, ESL Pro League IDreamHack Open Leipzig, Counter Pit League Season 2 - Finals, ESL One: New York,DreamHack Open WinterESL One: Cologne, CS:GO Asia Championships e StarSeries & i-League CS:GO Season 5StarSeries & i-League CS:GO Season 7Intel Extreme Masters XIV - World ChampionshipBLAST Premier: Global Final 2020Intel Extreme Masters XVI - CologneESL Pro League Season 14PGL Major Stockholm 2021BLAST Premier: Fall Finals 2021BLAST Premier: World Final 2021AstralisAstralis is a professional CS:GO team, founded in January 2016 by former members of the Team SoloMid, and was the first player-created organization, who received millions of Danish kroner from Sunstone Capital and entrepreneur Tommy Ahlers to this achievement.The team currently belongs to the Astralis group, which is subsidized by RFRSH Entertainment, and also owns a Blast Premier championship circuit.The current lineup of the group's CSGO team has the following players:Andreas "Xyp9x" HøjslethLukas "gla1ve" RossanderPhilip "Lucky" EwaldKristian “Konfig” WieneckeBenjamin “BLAMEF” BremerAlexander “AVE” Holdt (Coach)Frederik “Lomme” Nielsen (Analyst)And their main titles throughout the years were:BLAST Pro Series: Global Final 2019StarLadder Berlin Major 2019Intel Extreme Masters XIII - Katowice Major 2019ESL Pro League, Season 8Esports Championship Series Season 6FACEIT Major: Londres 2018ELEAGUE CS: GO Premier 2018Esports Championship Series, temporada 5ESL Pro League Temporada 7ELEAGUE Major: Atlanta 2017Ninjas in PyjamasNinjas in Pyjamas (NiP) is a Swedish eSports organization that is best known for its Counter-Strike history and current Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team, and are one of the biggest and oldest gaming organization in Europe with a reported value of $11 million.NiP was formed in June 2000, having started its success from 2001. The team competed in Counter-Strike 1.6 until its dissolution in 2007. In 2012, the team returned with a renowned Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team. On August 10, 2012, NiP officially announced the switch from Counter-Strike 1.6 competitions to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.Its current CS:GO roster includes:Nicolai “Dev1ce” ReedtzNicolas “Plopski” Zamora GonzalesHampus PoserFredrik “Rez” SternerPatrick “ES3TAG” HansenBjorn “THREAT” Pers (as Coach)The team also has an academy named Young Ninjas, with the current roster:Love “PHZY” SmiderbrandtAnton “SAPEC” PalmgrenErik “ZTR” GustafssonKalle “RO1F” JohanssonTim “MANN3N” IsakLinus “LNZ” HoltangFredrik “SLAP” Junbrant (Coach)Fredrik “JAEGARN” Andersson (Mental Coach)The Ninjas in Pyjamas team has a huge story and titles on the Counter Strike franchise, especially on CS: GO, where they pretty much dominated the competitive scene between 2012 and 2013. They also have gotten to a Major grand final the most amount of times and the most amount of times in a row, with 5.Their CS:GO titles include the following events:ESWC 2012DreamHack Winter 2012AMD Sapphire InvitationalESL Major Series One - Spring 2013ESEA Global Finals Season 13DreamHack Summer 2013ESL Major Series One - Summer 2013ESEA Global Finals Season 14Dreamhack Bucharest 2013StarLadder StarSeries VIIDreamHack Winter 2013Fragbite Masters Season 1Svecup 2013 Grand FinalsESL Major Series One Katowice 2014Copenhagen Games 2014DreamHack Summer 2014ESL One Cologne 2014DreamHack Winter 2014Gfinity Spring Masters 1PGL CS:GO Championship Series Kick-off SeasonFlashpoint Season 3FnaticFnatic is a professional British eSports organization, founded in 2004, being one of the main names in the competitive landscape of the Counter Strike franchise since then. Their CS:GO team is one of the most successful of all time. During 2013 to 2015, the team picked up three Major titles and dominated every tournament. Despite being in the game for a long time, Fnatic’s core CS:GO lineup is still one of the world’s most feared.Their current lineup is:Freddy “Krimz” JohanssonLudvig “Brollan” BrolinOwen “Smooya” ButterfieldAlex “ALEX” McMeekinWilliam “Mezii” MerrimanKevin “Kevve” BohlinPeppe “Peppzor” BorakLulian “Regali” HarjauFrancisco “Kst” FragosoMatias “Banjo” KivistoTheir current team manager is Andreas Samuelsson.The Fnatic Team managed to get the following titles in the past few years:World Electronic Sports Games (2018)Intel Extreme Masters XII - World Championship (2018)Intel Extreme Masters X - World Championship (2016)StarLadder i-League StarSeries XIV (2016)ESL ESEA Pro League Season 2 - Finals (2015)FACEIT 2015 Stage 3 Finals (2015)ESL One: Cologne (2015)ESL ESEA Pro League Season 1 - Finals (2015)ESL One: Katowice (2015)DreamHack Winter (2013)G2 EsportsG2 Esports is a European organization based in Berlin, Germany, and acquired the Team Kinguin lineup on September 11, 2015, where they finished 3rd and 4th at DreamHack Open: Cluj-Napoca 2015, and their current lineup has the following players:Audric “JACKZ” JugNemanja “huNter-“ KovacNikola “NiKo” KovacIlya “m0NESY” OsipovAleksi “Aleskib” Virolainen”Remy “XTQZZZ” Quoniam.François ‘AmaNEk’ DelaunayKenny ‘kennyS’ SchrubJan ‘Swani’ Müller (Data Analist)Jérôme ‘NiaK’ Sudries (Team Manager)From 2016 onwards, the team conquered some great achievements with their CS:GO team.ECS Season 1 finals 2016DreamHack Open Tours 2017ESL Pro League Season 5Esports Championship Series Season 1DreamHack Masters Malmö 2017BLAST Premier Spring Series 2020 Group CChampions Cup Finals 2019Good Game League 2019 Finals ChampionsGood Game League 2019Team LiquidTeam Liquid is a Dutch esports organization founded by Joy Hoogeveen and Victor Goossens in 2000 and with a Counter Strike: Global Offensive division since 2015, where their CS:GO team received the Intel Grand Slam award in 2019.• Team Liquid was the first North American team to reach a CS:GO Major grand final at ESL One: Cologne 2016, they Previously won the most prize money from one big event with a stand-in. The event being ESL One: Cologne 2016 with s1mple standing in. The record was beaten by SK Gaming after winning EPICENTER 2017 using Ricardo "boltz" Prass as a stand-in, winning $100,000 more than Team Liquid.Their current roster is composed by:Jonathan “EliGE” JablonowskiKeith “NAF” MarkovicJoshua “oSee” OhmRichard “shox” PapillonEric “adeN” Hoag (as Coach)Steve Perino (as Manager)Team Liquid managed to make some great results on 2019, placing first on the following events:Intel Extreme Masters XIV - ChicagoBLAST Pro Series: Los Angeles 2019Intel Grand Slam Season 2ESL One: Cologne 2019ESL Pro League Season 9 - FinalsDreamHack Masters Dallas 2019Intel Extreme Masters XIV - SydneyFaZe ClanFaZe Clan is a European professional esports organization founded by Americans, present in the competitive scenario of several games, which joined Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in 2016. The team was founded from an old lineup of G2 Esports and participates in numerous important championships of the modality. They have won multiple big events with different stand-ins: IEM Sydney 2018 with Xizt, ESL One: Belo Horizonte 2018 with cromen and BLAST Pro Series: Miami 2019 with AdreN.Its current lineup includes the following players:Havard “rain” NygaardHelvijs “broky” SaukantsRussel “Twistzz” Van DulkenFinn “karrigan” AndersenRobin “ropz” KoolRobert “RobbaN” DahlstromAnd some of their main titles includes:ESL One: New York 2017Esports Championship Series Season 4 - FinalsELEAGUE CS:GO Premier 2017StarLadder i-League StarSeries Season 3BLAST Pro Series: Copenhagen 2019BLAST Pro Series: Miami 2019EPICENTER 2018ESL One: Belo Horizonte 2018Intel Extreme Masters XIII - SydneyTeam VitalityTeam Vitality is a French esports organization founded in August 2013 by Fabien Devide and Nicolas Maurer. It has various professional teams and content creators from across Europe and India, they entered Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in early October 2018.Its current roster includes:Dan “apex” MadesclaireHerbaut “ZywOo” MathieuRabier “misutaaa” KévinPeter “dupreeh” RasmussenEmil “Magisk” ReifJayson “Kyojin” Van NguyanDanny “zonic” Selim Sorensen (Head Coach)Mathieu “MaT” Leber (Assistant Coach)Their managers are Lars Christian Robl and Matthieu Péché, and among their titles are:Intel Extreme Masters XVI - WinterBLAST Premier: Fall 2020Intel Extreme Masters XV - Beijing Online: EuropeEPICENTER 2019Esports Championship Series Season 7 - Finalscs_summit 4Charleroi Esports 2019DreamHack Open Atlanta 2018Virtus ProVirtus.pro (VP) is an esports organization based in Russia. Founded in 2003, the organization currently has players competing in such games as Counter Strike: Global Offensive n November 2015, the team got an investment of over US$100,000,000 from Alisher Usmanov's USM Holdings Since 2015 Virtus.pro is a part of the ESforce esports holding.Their current roster includes the following players:Timur “buster” TulepovAleksei “Qikert” GolubevDzhami “Jame” AliMareks “YEKINDAR” GalinskisEvgeniy “FL1T” LebedevDastan “dastan” Aqbaev (as coach)As they have a vast historic of results, check below the tournaments where they managed to get first place:SLTV StarSeries V (2013)EMS One Katowice (2014)ESL ESEA Dubai Inviational (2015)SL i-League Invitational: Kyiv (2016)ELEAGUE Season 1 (2016)Dreamhack Bucharest (2016)Dreamhack Masters Las Vegas (2017)Adenaline Cyber League (2017)Ploish Esport League Spring (2019)Blast Premier CIS Cup (2020)IEM XV New-York Online: CIS (2020)Flashpoint Season 2 (2020)Dreamhack Open December (2020)Cs_summit 7 (2021)Pinnacle Fall Series #1 (2021)ConclusionThat's all for today, I hope it helps you in getting to know the CS:GO Teams and, who knows, maybe even find your favorite to cheer and bet during the tournaments season!
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